position. looks like the angels have to win this to continue their sharing of first place texas has beaten tampa bay 12-4 tonight. 9th inning. wigginton, left field and that's not going to be caught. rivera thought he might dive, decided not to. wigginton thought about three but decided to stop at second in a tight ballgame. >> jim: you are already in scoring position. one out, you are thinking about getting to third. and hangs a breaking ball. we told you about tieg winin ton, he has -- ty wigginton. he has been red, red shot. bullpen has been active and is going to be used. that will be it as sean o'sullivan will be coming out. he is the pitcher of record and responsible for the runner on at second base. he will not have a chance to win this ballgame. bullpen for both ball clubs now activated.

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choice signed. he has been very, very good since april. 7 earned runs in 23 games, so that's a little bit under 2.52 runs a game. did get little roughed up. the bad news fort angels, all the grand slams that have been thrown, all three the year, jason bulger has thrown them this year. orioles trying to get another one on the board. the fastball comes inside to melvin mora. he has been called out on strikes and lined out, begin up the grand slam to ichiro, jason kuebel. >> jim: i would tell mike, don't bring me in with the bases loaded. probably not a good idea which he probably understands. >> gary: it will be taken out side and he falls behind 2-0 on mora as the orioles try to get back at least one of those runs. 21 of the last 24 outings

against the right hander. the bullpen has been a problem all season long. they are trying to get that settled in now. breaking ball and a good one taken for a strike. the count will go to 2-1. oriole the looking for that big two-out hit. melvin mora had a chance in the 2nd inning. melvin mora called out on strikes. swinging bubbles getting a lot round of applause. that is not, however, a major league strike. as the plastic goes by, swung on and tremendous power. melvin a switch hitter in the box and out of it. >> jim: never too late to learn. >> gary: and that's a good strike on outside corner. >> jim: i think melvin thinks that ball is a little outside and called him out the first

time on it. you don't need a homerun. he has not hit one of those in 44 games. just get your base hit trying to add some fence. wigginton with two down will go on contact. bulgeer with a 2-2 delivery. and melvin will foul it away. he holds the count at 2 balls, 2 strikes. that will send napoli there. >> jim: the velocity is there. that one was at 94. the discussion is, what are we going to do? napoli i'm sure said, maybe down in the strike zone might be a little more effective. oh, look at that. >> gary: the angel bubbles. >> jim: is there anything they don't have out here?

>> gary: not that i know of. 2 balls, 2 strikes dluferry. mora reaching for it. izturis gets it. no runs, one hit, no errors and one left on base. tight ballgame here as the orioles maintain a 1-run lead. ♪ (tucci) count on the nation's fastest 3g network. at&t to give people great, fresh beer. oh, he insists upon quality. everything's got to be a+. over the years i've been in stores all over the country just checking on the freshness and the quality of sam adams. right from the beginning,

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unbelievable play by rob earth andino. and watch this angle right here the right on the money to ty wigginton. didn't have to reach for it. >> gary: that's some of the gems in this ballgame so far. 4-9-1, 3-8-0 the lines in this ballgame as the orioles are looking for the 14th win on the road. only the nationals have fewer road wins as we come into play than the orioles. morales had a single and he has flied out to left field. sean o'sullivan out of there, giving up four runs on nine hits over 5 2/3 with no walks, two strowtsz. he could be the lutesing pitcher in the ballgame. matt albers is now the pitcher of record for the orioles since

berken did not get the required 5. albers working here to morales. and the 1-1 delivery. it would figure that this a's team -- the angels team would be doing well in one-run ballgames. when you lead the lead the american league in stolen bases and going first to third more than anyone else. all that tells you is that you are involved in tight ball games. >> jim: and they are willing to play in tight ball games. >> gary: 3-1 to morales who is trying to get on and sets things up for izturis and napoli to follow. >> jim: last year, he paid his dues, had a trick year in aaa salt lake city and then, this year, he became the first baseman of choice, i guess,

because teixeira became a free agents and went to the yankees. >> gary: and they are loving it in new york. looks like that was the right decision made by him. >> jim: you know, for 180 million, anywhere you go is great. i know what you mean. >> gary: i guess 180 million, you do play in hell and you would like it. delivery in the air to centerfield. coming hard is jones, he has got t-1 away here. >> amber: time to check in for the minor league, good night for till man in aa. norfolk. he gave up just four hit, walking one batter and striking out 7. he is now 6-5 in norfolk with a 2.69 e.r.a. also sew is izturis will begin a rehab assignment in bowie. he will be there tuesday and wednesday night. if all goes well, he should be

activated for the series against the blue ja jays i. >> gary: that raises an interesting question. that means somebody has to come off the roster. >> ji iuh-huh. >> gary: that's right in front of you. andino is not going anywhere. >> jim: he is your iew till player. >> gary: quo could there be some kind of a deal struck prior to that date to move a player or two? maicer izturis has singled and hit into a double play. 1 ball, 1 strike count, orioles up 4-3. that ball down the line, third base and a sliding non-play right up against the stands, luke scott could not get there. >> jim: that's a play you can make out here in anaheim, in angel stadium but not in baltimore. can you do it but you can get all kind of rubber burns. you don't want to hit the ball,

kind of glance off of it. nice effort by luke scott. >> gary: 1 1 ball, 2 strikes count on izturis. the single came in 29th inning. he has six hits in these three games. he has been on. >> jim: the orioles are getting used to what ichiro will do, get on base, seeing the ball. >> gary: 1-2 delivery, tried it again. just trying to punch that. luke scott went sliding down there, trying to readjust. looks like he might have a pad on his knee there and that's hurting him a little bit. he looks over at the surface. it wasn't soft. here is the 1-2 delivery. into left field for the base hit. he does punch it through. it is on with his second hit. potential tying run now on base with one away. >> jim: part of playing in the

big league is what you can do and what you can't do. maicer izturis is not trying to hit homeruns or he would hit flyballs. you hit line drive after line drive. you get the ball up, he's going to get a base hit and he's going to put a good swing on it. >> gary: now, mike napoli will stand in with a runner on at first base. napoli already singled and scored a run in this ballgame. he is 1-for-2. napoli 3-for-9 against the orioles on the season and the angels threatenning to get this ballgame tied up or better as they now have 9 hits. each team with 9 hits in this ballgame. >> jim: angels are 22-4 when they hit a homerun. so they come in. in homeruns, they are 12th in the american league. that's out of 14 teams. orioles are 10th. this a homerun guy.

>> gary: stepping off, looking over to first base, izturis with not a particularly big lead. 4 homeruns in july for the angels so far. 0-1 the count. abreu, of course, has had two of those coming here in the series. morales and rivera the others. fouled off. that one bounced off zaun and a two-strike count on napoli who had a pretty good uppercut going on that one. he was trying to drive it. >> jim: watching the game earlier in the week, he took josh beckett extremely deep. he just can elevate the ball. big strong guy. if you are matt albers, what you do best is sink the ball. we saw him get out of the last inning with a double play. set up outside, throw over first, though. the ballgame is played tight

throughout as the orioles got their runs early in the ballgame in the 3rd inning, 3 runs, 4 hits, and they added another in the 5th inning, roberts, jones, markakisrbis. both teams have played it close to the vest in holding runners, trying to make sure they get that double play possibility. there has been that runner at first base. >> gary: the orioles 10-9 in one-run game and that's just a part of it. can you hold runners? can you get your catcher a ball that he can make a good throw on? 0-2 delivery, trying to get him to chase and he would not do it. it goes to 1-2. yankees beat toronto today 6-5 in 12 innings. matsui, jorge posada, johnny damon all had homeruns in that ballgame. yankees have been playing some

pretty good baseball and toronto caught them at a bad time. >> jim: yeah, burnett throttled them last night. he has given up three runs in his 22 1/3 inning. 1-2 pitch, swung on and missed. napoli asking if it was there. >> jim: your strength is down on the zone and mike napoli likes it up. and albers is winning this battle by making a great pitch. even if he hits it, it is probably going to be on the round. the one difference with matt albers is, that all of a sudden, you rediscover the sinker. >> gary: that will make you effective. 2 down. kendrick in his debut coming up from the minors last night, a single, a run scored and he has flied out. runner at first base is

izturis, two down. >> jim: pretty good 9th place hitter for mike scioscia's team. >> gary: .234 right now. throw over to first base again to get him back. that .193 number in may with the angel the, the reason he was sent down to the minors, 20 games worth of playing time at aaa. john rodriguez who had been called up to replace him gets sent back down. 1-0 delivery, fouled outside of third and a 1 ball, 1 strike count. we have one of our shorter games on the opening night of this series and we paid for it ever since. first game is only 2 hours and 14 minutes as there were a lot of strikes thrown in the victory by the angels, lackey

and guthrie. last night and tonight, there have been a lot of pitches thrown. not necessarily strikes. that will be taken down low, 2- 1 on kendrick. >> jim: that gave you a pretty good idea of how well lackey pitched. jeremy guthrie, other than the two homeruns to abreu, one was inside and abreu put on one of the better swings of the year. both pitched extremely well. >> gary: he would have had that stolen except for the foul ball. >> jim: if you are mike scioscia, you wait for the count. big league. he takes a little bit of a look. two outs does not matter, anyway. he lines that to somebody, not going to be a dp. you are out of the inning,

anyway. figgins waiting on deck if the inning goes on. matt albers, breaking ball almost got him to bite and the count is full. so, now, izturis will be running, 3-2 and 2 down. >> jim: gary, as you know, big difference, especially in a one- run game, between 2-2 and 3-2 because he will be running. >> gary: and good speed. it gives him a chance on a base hit. >> jim: long base hit and certainly a double, you know. a lot of time, you have good speed not running, hard to score on a double down the line. that won't be the case here. >> gary: here is the 3-2 delivery, swung on and missed. albers got him as he jammed him with the heater. our 737s fly to over 65 cities across the country every day. woman over p.a.: this is your final boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour.

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i irk i'm on a mission to lose five pounds. >> gary: that one a shot erred bat, pop-up. izturis has got t zaun retired, 1-for-3, double for greg with a run scored in the ballgame as we go to the 7th inning. 4-9-1 for the orioles. orioles have not trailed, had a 4-0 lead. before the ann gentlemens came back with 3 runs in the fifth inning, one of those unearned. that will bring up andino. robert andino, he has singled and grounded out. good baseball game. tight and tough where everything matters. a strike taken. >> jim: it's realy the way you would like to see the game played. two relatively young pitchers, berken a rookie at 25 and sean

o'sullivan, a baby at 21. >> gary: jason bulger in relief here. bulger has thrown a pretty good breaking ball and he got andino to chase that one. he came on and got the final out in the 6th inning. andino now at .250 on the season, one homerun, 7 rbis. again, chasing one away. andino goes downswinging. 2 down here in the 7th inning. >> jim: nice little breaking ball. you have a big guy at 6'4", the 22nd amateur drafted back. there is that breaking ball we talked about -- back in 2001. one year as a starter and then right to the bullpen. again, since then, he has a couple of games started, his brothers, kevin and brian, were select the. they had three brothers in the same draft. later round, though, 44th and 4

-- 43rd and 49th round. how many times does that happen? >> gary: not many. that's pretty good. >> jim: yes. >> gary: and those were not dead last kind of drafts. brian has a big bulge games, two doubles, flied out in the game. roberts is here with two down and nobody on here in the 7th inning. that one grounded toward second base. morales made a move to get it, goes back to the bag, kendrick makes the play. bulgeer has a very easy inning. 7th inning stretch time. in one place... and one place only: golden, colorado. it's followed one tradition: use the best high-country barley... and only rocky mountain water. and it's been brewed under one motto: never compromise.

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moving my home sweet home ♪ god bless america ♪ my home sweet home ♪ [ cheers ]. >> gary: michael johns who was an american idol finalist performing here on july 4th. 40,000 plus on hand to hear it. back with you here and a good ballgame to celebrate here for these two teams. they played some pretty good baseball and even better here in game 3. >> jim: those three-run homeruns like we saw for the

ann gentlemens on thursday and then aubrey huff. this is a battle of the bullpen. the orioles on paper lately have had a pretty good bullpen. angels last. you are on the road, orioles are trying to win games on the road. thank you for letting me talk here tonight. >> gary those who have missed it, we'll rerun that for you on july 4th. you would think the angels would be better set for this kind of a ballgame. they are more inclined to play close games, the hit-and-run, the bunt, the speed. the orioles would rather have base hits for rbis. all in all, you are right on there, but at some ., the orioles, if they have to get back to .500 will have to start winning these types of games, especially on the road this game at home, you say, wait a minute. they have a good chance of winning it. they have not won these ball

games for a long, long time on the road. >> let's see what the bullpen for the orioles can do. beaz has been one of the -- not surprised but really the effective pitchers and getting more so as the season has gone along. so the orioles hope that, as you see the is pitched and hit, they have good differential there. you want that he has not walked a lot of batters, especially of late. so baez will come out of the bullpen. albers worked a couple of innings, did a good job, department walk anybody, had a couple of strikeouts. now the third pitch tore be used by the orioles, danys baez. he will have to face the top of the order as figgins reached on a fielder's choice and scored in the 5th. he has lined out and struck out. baez's deliver to him,

fastball, ball 1. >> jim: again, baez pitching very well. there have been some blips on the radar screen, howard's homerun in phillie and the grand slam by hanley ramirez, one of two he hit against the orioles when they were down in florida but the mission right here with a 1-run lead is to keep mr. figgins off base. that's not an easy task to do. he can run with the best of them if he gets on. >> gary: he creates a lot of options for mike scioscia. here is the 2-1 delivery. strike on the inside corner. he jacknifed away and didn't like that call. figgins will discuss that with the home plate umpire. >> jim: you would think -- he is in a direct line when we talk about paul emmell, right on that inside corner, again, if you're going to stand there, it is very difficult to get

anaccurate call on the outside corner and there have been some close pitches that i think some of the pitchers and hitters disagreed with tonight. >> gary: it goes to 3-2. the potential tying run did get on with one away in the 6th inning and was stranded. that one is hit high and deep and foul down the right field line. the count will stay at 3 balls and 2 strikes from baez. >> jim: i mean, when i pitched, i hated to get 3-2 to a guy like figgins because if you walk him, you know it's most likely going to be a double. >> gary: that one is going to be to left field. luke scott not going to be able to make the play. he was playing in. that ball found a hole and the leadoff man is on. figgins leads off the bottom half of the inning with a base hit. time to text in your vote for the at&t kaipd date. adam jones, brian roberts, two doubles, two run scores and an

rbi s or jason berken. text in your votes, a, b, c, 51862. >> jim: the mentality for the orioles is that the figgins is the tying run, not the go-ahead run. while he is extremely important, you are only in the 7th inning. you will get up a couple more times in a regulation game. >> gary: bobby abreu will take the pitch inside for a ball. >> jim: we all know about abreu. that is one of the more amazing numbers. i was talking to mike scioscia and he knows how good of a player abreu is. he hit for .300, but to take 630 pitches. >> gary: that one is going to be a base hit into the gap. figgins on his way to third. throw will come to second. abreu comes through again. he is 4-for-7 now off baez for his career ant angels have the first two on in the bottom of

the 7th inning. >> jim: he takes 633 pitches on 680 at-bats. he likes to time the fastball and that's what he did. there you go. angel baseball. >> gary: now torii hunter. once again, that's the middle of the order. the angels have had the right part of that order up when they needed it. they did so in the 5th inning as napoli and kendrick got on base in the 8th and 9th spot and it was abreu, hunter and guerrero who got the rbis. now first and third, nobody out. torey hunter picked out an rbi on a ground ball out. he is 1-for-3 in the ballgame with a single. nobody out. fastball taken up high. against baez, hunter has seen a lot of him. he is 4-for-14 with a homerun. the angels 2-for-7 with runners

in scoring position. orioles 4-for-8 in a one- ballgame. >> jim: with baez, everything is up, up, up. >> gary: 11 hits now for the angels and down with this one and away, it's 2-0. >> jim: one thing about danny, he is a pretty big guy, long armer, a lot of extension. if he can't time getting the arm out of the glove and into position to throw downhill, difficult to be successful. early on, he is a great story, tommy john surgery, missed all of last year, trying to be a starter. went to the bullpen in spring training about halfway through and the first two and a half months was outstanding. baez delivery. got one to hit. he was teed up for a fastball and wanted to drive it. >> jim: where was the pitch? >> gary: up. >> jim: he lives with the splitter down and lately it's been tumbling. we go with brian bass who is usually the long man for the

orioles. baez and jimmie johnson has been struggling with his command. >> gary: 2-1 count. runners on first and third. throw over. and bobby abreu not with a particularly big lead over there. he gets back to the bag. >> jim: remember, he can steal bases, 17 out of 20. >> gary: and, again. >> jim: and the tying run at third puts a lot of pressure on greg zaun behind the plate because you have such great speed with figgins at third base. >> gary: the delivery by baez, a breaking ball that will be taken down low. and a 3-1 count now. baez worked against boston in his last outing on the first, giving up a run on three hits in an inning and 2/3. 3 balls 1 strike count. and a look over to third base as mora came